Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread

[tolmie's hairdoo]

l like reading common sense.

Common sense can also remind us that different City line-ups have also conceded the best part of five or six goals in the exits to Spurs, Liverpool and Monaco. Three against Lyon in a one-off tie.

Truth is, we would have been out already against Madrid if away goals were still a thing this season.

Aside from Atletico and Dortmund away, we struggle to hang in games at the big moments.

We are a reflection of our manager, a team of good guys who perhaps care a little too much, which can bring its on pressure.

John Lennon once you don't win many friends by telling the truth, but you earn true friends as a result.

I'd rather have Pep and this team, winning and losing his way, than fluke some bollocks knockout that even Forest, Villa and Marseille have managed to win.

Make no mistake, this team needs us, just as much as we need them over this next couple of weeks.

 

[chaddblue]

Morning.
Anyone else feeling a bit shit?

Yep. Trying to think of a believable reason why I need to work from home today

 

[WickyWain]

Just watched back the game from 86:00 to the end about 4 times. My god.

Courtois makes a great save with his studs and then there's a horrendous corner to put Madrid on the attack on about 89:30. The defending from then is non-existent, it's going to be horrendous viewing for the players. There are multiple times to bring it down and slow everything down. We dont. we panic to the extreme and this is pre Madrid scoring the first. The ball is at Eddie's feet on 90:01 after conceding and somehow making a mess of kick off, and Madrid are careering down our right flank on 90:30 again. There is zero control, zero shape. If you can take it I would watch it again.

gutted today.

You mad bastard :)

 

[117 M34]

Any lurking scousers want to buy a room at the ibis in Paris for 3x the price I paid?

 

[cibaman]

I can’t understand why they couldn’t do that. We’ve done it before by taking the ball into the corner and running the clock down. The derby at home a couple of years ago springs to mind.

It was naive at best for a team with experience of big games for their club and country.

We’re usually very good at running the clock down in the corner. But it’s nearly always de Bruyne who runs those tactics. Of the players on the pitch at the end, only Bernardo is skilled at that tactic and it needs two to do it effectively.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

That fucking goal line clearance that was kicked straight into Foden and rebounded out, instead of into the net.... I mean ffs that says it all

 

[SerbianBlue]

We’re playing in Manchester next, against Newcastle.

Assumed we can beat Newcastle

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

Morning.
Anyone else feeling a bit shit?

Can’t get out of bed been this way for last four hours

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

History is written by the victors. That is why history often carries a level of falsehood. History will record that Real Madrid went through last night.
What my eyes told me — and sorry, I'm not going to deny the evidence of my eyes — is that, over 180 minutes of normal time, City were the better team. In flashes, Real were better than us, and they reacted brilliantly. What I particularly noticed last night is how, even when they went a goal down, and so 2-0 on aggregate, they didn't lose their football. They continued to believe, they continued to play. Maybe that's experience, maybe that's the weight of having won this competition thirteen times. O.k. I'll concede that.
By contrast, during extra time, our football fell to pieces. We resorted to hoofball, and I was astonished to see it. I've very rarely seen that under Pep. We were no longer a team, but eleven players running round like headless chickens. We did not threaten them.
So be it. We still have lessons to learn, for sure.There are no consolations to be had for the way we went out last night. None. Slept really badly. Kept waking up in the night and remembering.

By the way, I'll state my conviction clearly: anybody saying that Pep needs sacking is working for the opposition, and opposition fans. They may be stating a sincere opinion — who knows, when you're absolutely tanked up with ten pints inside you any opinion is possible — but that is what they are doing. Fans of the big European clubs, fans of United and Liverpool, would love it if Pep were sacked. It would be a birthday present and Christmas present rolled into one. Liverpool F.C. won no trophies last season. Were people on RAWK calling for Klopp to be sacked? I don't chose to go on RAWK, which is the cesspit of football forums as far as I'm concerned, but I'd be kind of astonished. Or if they were, they were probably City fans or United fans who'd infiltrated that forum.

 

[come-on-barney]

It would be nice to have someone rapid who could cover the ball in behind or counter attack and give us more freedom in attack. It's Walker or nada otherwise.

Totally agree, this team has no pace throughout. Never replaced Leroy. We need more than Haaland in the summer. We need to buy wide players with pace.